Asthal House, including garden steps, gates and walls with terracotta dressings

Built of coursed, squared rock-faced red sandstone rubble with caramel coloured terracotta quoins and window and door dressings, red tile roof with yellow brick stacks. A large square house which is centrally planned around a hall and staircase. Two storeys and basement, three bays with the entrance in the centre. The street front is raised high on the basement with steps up to the door. Double panelled doors with fanlight and terracotta surround with open pediment on brackets; 1 over 1 pane sash window above, with a keyed, rusticated framed with stiff-leaf caps. Wide shallow two-storey canted bays to either side of the entrance. These have 1 + 2 + 1 windows as before and a broad band of stiff-leaf decoration below the upper windows. All windows are 1 over 1 pane sashes with the curved meeting rail characteristic of this development. Bay roofs with spike finials. Roof with tall weathered stacks to either side and a central octagonal belvedere surrounded by a fence in the manner of houses of the Carolean period. Left return elevation has a full height square sided bay windows, while the right return has two plain sashes on each floor. Concrete steps to front door are original. Rubble street wall with rounded terracotta capping, square piers with ball finials (one missing to left), wrought iron gate. Rear elevation not inspected.

The interior is remarkably unchanged with some of its original decorative treatment. Only the ground floor was seen at resurvey. Its character is slightly old fashioned for 1909 being of the Bedford Park/Aesthetic Movement type with white and cream painted woodwork and shelves and rails for displaying blue-and-white Japanese porcelain. All the joinery in the hall and main rooms survives as does the decorative ironmongery, Walter Crane doorplates etc and the main fireplaces. The hall retains its panelling and the original marble chip composite floor. The staircase is a Jacobean type straight flight one with carved balusters. It is not top lit, despite the external appearance of the house. The belvedere on the roof which gives access to the leads, is purely for looking at the remarkable view towards the Blorenge, now rather spoiled by Mill Street Industrial Estate.